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My practice [poem]

I read this quote [Our spiritual practice should ” … feel as natural to slip into as our favorite jeans or T-shirt, at ease both with being worn and being worn out.” — Robert Augustus Masters] and I reflected on my favorite spiritual practice. ❤ Yes sir, I’m down with my practice these days.

To me, I think my favorite spiritua practice is my dance at sunset in a dusty dirty Dog Bowl, two blocks from my house, swallowed in a sandy ravine where pups and people and pot gather and sunlight descends over the hills… [ I scribbled this:]

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My practice

I kick off my kicks

dawdle and hesitate for a moment, then

launch, toe-tips and curlicues into this

spinning purging delicate fierce

dance upon the earth.

Sometimes there are people

high atop the rails

looking down on me as the

golden-hour sun lights my face and forearms

then

I’m completely alone.

Entangled in blackberries

and dill weeds

and air that smells like cardamom

I’m watched by a yellow dog

panting in dune grass

and fennel pollen

begging to be picked

Made present by

a broken-bottle cut bleeding

on my heel

I dance

Because I breathe

I dance

Because I believe

in celebration of

this life

my life reflects a practice

for once

for always

there is only one thing there could

ever be

Me.

You.

Movement.

always intertwining always

alone

Wrist flicks toward a setting sun

As the man-bunned boy

With fuzzy scorched blonde frizz

on his calves

approaches. Says hi.

And I continue to dance.

Ear buds in, do I acknowledge this man?

‘Is this the man?’ I think. I wonder.

‘The man’

from the Mayan foretelling

‘Dance and sunrise and change and movement,’ she-shaman said three years ago in Guatemala

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This is just beautiful and wonderfully put. I can so relate to this post. My spiritual practice is when I go for a trek up the mountains….. To be amongst the mighty mountains, to experience the stillness and serenity of the nature far far away from humanity. And it is me and the universe at large connecting on a different level.